APC Accuses Gov. Wike Of Lying Against Amaechi

The All Progressives Congress (APC) of Rivers State has accused Governor Nyesom Wike, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), of lying against the former governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi.

Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media and Public Affairs Consultant to Rivers Chairman of the party, Chief Davies Ikanya, yesterday in Port Harcourt described the collapse of the education sector under Wike’s administration as unacceptable, unfortunate and wicked.

The party said: “The total collapse of the education sector of Rivers State was further showcased and buttressed by the Rivers State students of secondary school cadre in the very heart of Port Harcourt, when they decided last week to take their destiny in their own hands by taking to the streets to protest lack of teachers and classroom blocks in their schools, insisting that they be relocated to the model secondary schools built by the administration of Amaechi, which Wike has kept under lock and key, as they would no longer be able to continue to study in unfavourable environment.

“Wike, who has abandoned education in Rivers State, on February 10, 2018 in Port Harcourt, donated a whopping sum of N500 million to a university owned by a former Rivers governor, Dr. Peter Odili, thereby continuing to squander Rivers State’s money, through disbursement of public funds to his party chieftains and cohorts, while the future of our children remains bleak and mortgaged.

“Rivers APC notes with great sadness that the rot in our educational system could get to this disgraceful level that secondary school students in Rivers State had to embark on public protest, while Wike continues to demonstrate his hatred for Amaechi by keeping the model secondary schools built by Amaechi under lock and key, thereby jeopardising the future of our dear children.

“We have not forgotten how Wike wickedly stopped the overseas scholarship scheme instituted by Amaechi to assist indigent and bright children of Rivers State to have a better future, thereby forcing most of these students studying abroad into prostitution and other criminal acts in foreign countries. The protests and pleas by some of the students in the streets of London fell on deaf ears.”

Wike had on Saturday after inspecting some projects told newsmen that Amaechi’s spirit of demolition destroyed the basic and secondary education sub-sector, claiming that his administration inherited a rot of unimaginable proportion in the sector.

However, the APC noted that Amaechi, within the first three years as governor, set the state on the path that made it a world-acknowledged state in education by declaring an emergency in the sector and completely took over the payment of salaries of primary school and junior secondary school teachers, from the councils.

The party added that Amaechi’s government initiated and targeted 700 model primary schools and within four years, about 250 were completed and inaugurated.